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THE 3
rd
 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES OF STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS 
dedicated to the 99
th
anniversary of the National Leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev
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ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY PRODUCTION AND 
RECOVERY PROCESSES FOR LOW API GRAVITY OILS 
THROUGH ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING 
Javad Javadov 
Baku Higher Oil School 
Baku, Azerbaijan 
[e-mail] 
Supervisor: Associate Professor Rauf Nadirov 
Keywords: 
eco-friendly, heavy oil, steam assisted gravity drainage, 
electromagnetic
heating
 
While global energy consumption grows on a daily basis as a result of 
economic expansion, untraditional hydrocarbon resources such as shale, oil 
sands, heavy oil, and extra heavy oil play an essential role in mitigating energy 
crises. To recover heavy oil, traditional thermal Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) 
technologies are usually utilized. These approaches include in-situ 
combustion, cyclic steam injection, Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD), 
and others. They are, however, sometimes commercially unviable and 
technically challenging to execute. Growing environmental concerns, as well 
as the requirement for long-term sustainability, demand the development of 
eco-friendly alternative technologies. One of the most extensively used 
procedures, the standard thermal heating technique done by the injection of 
steam into reservoirs, has restricted application owing to a number of 
problems that limit its use. These variables include poor injectivity reservoirs 
as well as deep, heterogeneous reservoirs with a narrow pay zone. In these 
instances, electromagnetic (EM) heating may increase heavy oil recovery by 
providing consistent reservoir heating. This ecologically beneficial and risk-
free technology works by converting EM energy into heat energy. As a result 
of this process, the temperature of the reservoir increases while the viscosity 
of the oil lowers. 
Though renewable energy development is encouraging, oil and gas are 
expected to provide roughly 55 percent of the world's total energy demand 
in 2040, while renewable energy sources will meet just 17 percent. Heavy oil 
or very heavy oil accounts for the great bulk of the world's hydrocarbon 
reserves. Because hydrocarbons are the most plentiful resource on the 
planet, their successful utilization has a significant impact on the world's 
overall energy supply [1]. Furthermore, the world's growing energy need has 
forced it to realize the significance of unconventional hydrocarbon resources 
and to put a larger priority on their production. 
EM heating is a thermal EOR technology in which heat is generated 
inside the reservoir [2]. The eco-friendliness of this technology, as well as the 

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